It’s hard to believe we have to keep litigating this crap.

A gender-critical lawyer has avoided punishment from the barristers’ watchdog for “misgendering” a trans person in court.

Naomi Cunningham, an employment barrister, said she had been told by the Bar Standards Board (BSB) that she will face no further action over the “meritless” complaint that she repeatedly referred to a transgender female by a male pronoun during a hearing.

In other words that she repeatedly referred to a man by a male pronoun. Gee, you don’t say.

The BSB’s decision is significant because it signals the watchdog does not view it as professional misconduct to “misgender” a person during a court hearing, she told supporters.

“It has been my practice in a number of hearings over the last year or so to use correct-sex pronouns for trans-identifying men whose sex is material to the case,” she said.

It should be everyone’s practice. Doing the other thing upholds a lie, and not a trivial lie but a very significant one. It is not a good plan to systematically lie about what sex people are, much less force everyone else to lie about it.